Biden: 'Nothing at all will get done' if filibuster abolished

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5. Well there is also a differential

between what are dubbed "states rights" and what is under "federal jurisdiction" - to directly address your examples.

The passage of legislation that seeks to tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her uterus as a "state law" gets compared to something akin to say, what California did - take money from the state's budget surplus, and provide a free lunch to every student in the state, regardless of income.

Those are state laws. Neither of those things are federal laws.

But in each case, there is a desire by those states, to make their legislation "national" (federal), and that is where the hearings and Committee votes come into play to discuss and tweak, and eventually send something to the floor for consideration by the legislative body. And in the Senate, that's where it might die without seeing the light of day, and without even giving a reason why the legislation should or should not even be considered by the rest of the chamber for debate.

In essence, it's not a matter of what is "right" or "wrong" but that it's become a lazy way to keep something from at least being considered, debated, and voted on. So when it comes to the Senate, rather than requiring that 3/5s is needed for the legislation to become law (vs a simple majority), it requires 3/5 to NOT have it automatically declared DOA before it is even looked at or debated.